Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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 minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I already am a product.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Like associates with like.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.