I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

We boil at different degrees.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Forever is composed of nows.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

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

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.