Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

You can’t go backward in life.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I am happy and I’m single.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I give opinions, not advice.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

We are what we believe we are.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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.‘

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.