Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Never complain. Never explain.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Evil is whatever distracts.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I was becoming post-ideological.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.