If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Going home helps the content.

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 think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Being humble matters.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

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

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

My life is mine to remember.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Success has always been a great liar.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

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

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.