My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

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.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Never take anything for granted.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I’m addicted to placebos.

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.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

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

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.