Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

You should never give up your inner self.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

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.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

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

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Forget the past.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I always wanted to be loved.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Confine yourself to the present.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Some people would like me to be round again.