Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

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

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Learn to think continentally.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.