If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

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.

We become what we repeatedly do.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.