Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.