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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

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

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.