As you think, so shall you become.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

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.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

It is always your next move.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Be not a slave of words.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

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

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.