Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Better is the enemy of good.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

I just don’t have time to get old!

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Aim for the highest.

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.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I already am a product.