I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I’m tender on the inside.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I give the children education.

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.