Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

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.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

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

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

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.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

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 do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

You can be happy where you are.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.