It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

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

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

We are not at war against Islam.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Everybody has a purpose.

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

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

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.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Whatever you are, be a good one.