There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

Good memories invite heaven.

Perfection isn’t necessary for success, but determination is.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Professional sports is a business.

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.

And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.