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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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

Be not simply good – be good for something.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I’m chasing perfection.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Never mistake motion for action.