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.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

I never make conscious decisions.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

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

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.