Quotes about Self-knowledge
You don`t have to be a certain thing to be cool. [...] Just be you and know who you are.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
As a teenager I was explosively angry. I think rugby saved me because that`s just organized violence.
I don`t think I`ve mastered anything. I`m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That`s what life is like.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you`re a star you`re dead already. You`re embalmed.
I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn`t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
A shark? No. I like to think I`m more like a panther. A shark attacks without you knowing, with panther you know it`s coming but he still gets you.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.