Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Little things affect little minds.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

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

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.