I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

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

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I don’t do research. I never have.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

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

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

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

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

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.