I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

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.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

My range is limited.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I like to take it easy.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Let go of yesterday.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

We cannot learn men from books.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

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.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.