I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

You are victors, not victims!

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

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

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.