Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

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’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

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.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

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.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.