I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I like to let things breathe.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I just don’t have time to get old!

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

Never get out of bed before noon.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.