Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Half my life is an act of revision.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I've criticized myself over the years.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I’m glad I learned from it.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.