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

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I give opinions, not advice.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I already am a product.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

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

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I’m not a bad person.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.