I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

I’m not a bad person.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

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

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.