Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Energy begets energy.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

New roads; new ruts.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Never complain and never explain.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I don’t have many sad days.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.