If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I like to let things breathe.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Never take anything for granted.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Man is not made for defeat.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

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

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

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

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.