You can be happy where you are.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Single life is so overrated.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Giving up cannot be an option.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Being seventy is not a sin.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.