Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I am in my own head most of the time.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

Little things affect little minds.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.