My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.