Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

We become what we repeatedly do.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

You have to be someone.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

To add value to others, one must first value others.