I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Losing is tough.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

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

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There is no education like adversity.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.