Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

I was raised to be independent.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

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.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

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 don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

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.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

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

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.