Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

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

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Everybody has a purpose.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I don’t want followers.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Be as you wish to seem.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Let go of yesterday.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I can do whatever I want.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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.