Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure, " I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell.

The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I think you just look for the person you have the most fun with. And that's enough. You realize, "Wait, I can just keep having fun with her forever?" Yes, you can do that. That is the key.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.