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

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

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.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

For me, education was power.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

No driver is perfect.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I never expected to be anybody important.

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

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Mine is better than ours.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I think and that is all that I am.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

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

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

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

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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

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.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.