What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I grew up in a funny way.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Women don’t try to use me.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I kinda live where I find myself.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.