There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Real living is living for others.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Humble people ask for help.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.