David Grinspoon Quotes

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

Protect me from what I want.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.