Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Be not a slave of words.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

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

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I never say I am a guru.

Where thou art, that is home.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I think I’ve got wiser.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

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

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

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.

I have goals.

Mine is better than ours.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.