Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

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.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

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

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The people in my songs are all me.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

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

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.