My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.