I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

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

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

He who angers you conquers you.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

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!