I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I am rather inclined to silence.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I’m not really book-smart.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I’m afraid to fail again.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I think I’ve got wiser.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.