Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

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

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I’m not very articulate.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Life is precious.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Character is destiny.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.