Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

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

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I like pushing boundaries.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

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

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I’m not a bad person.