If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Never complain. Never explain.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

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

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

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.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.