As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I’m not very articulate.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Aim for the highest.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Life well spent is long.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I like to work.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Be not a slave of words.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I like to take it easy.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

I have wasted my hours.

No man is hurt but by himself.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

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.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.