Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

We love things we love what they are.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

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

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The only shame is to have none.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

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.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.