When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

People want you to fail.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

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

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

I already am a product.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.