Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

Life is a search for yourself.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.