All of our problems start in our minds.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Never complain. Never explain.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

He who angers you conquers you.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I believe time wounds all heels.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.