Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Fear is real, but so is love.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I’ve been very fortunate.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘