Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

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.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Never complain. Never explain.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

My life is my message.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

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.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

I’m tender on the inside.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I love being busy.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.