Never find fault with the absent.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

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.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

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

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.