It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

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.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

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

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

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

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.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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.