A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

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

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Forgotten is forgiven.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

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.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

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.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Lost time is never found again.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.