Little things affect little minds.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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?

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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

Being humble matters.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I grew up in a funny way.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

We are what we believe we are.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

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

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘