Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

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.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

God created man, but I could do better.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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?

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

To be awake is to be alive.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Value is what you get.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.