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.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.