self-awareness Quotes

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.