Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I believe time wounds all heels.

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

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

What you are comes to you.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.