Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

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

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I am two with nature.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Forever is composed of nows.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If you deserve it, go get it.