Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

There is so much that people take for granted.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

My life has been very full.

We become what we repeatedly do.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

We are all special cases.

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

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.