The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I never make conscious decisions.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

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

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

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.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.