The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete disputations of armchair scholars. He grapples with them himself, in his own lifetime.

Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now

Lazy people aren’t nice because they don’t want to exert any effort to be nice and lovable.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.