You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

My future is righteousness.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I was becoming post-ideological.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

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.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

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

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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