A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

We are wiser than we know.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

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

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

All of our problems start in our minds.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I’m nobody, who are you?

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

I’ve been very fortunate.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.