I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Silence is safer than speech.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.