No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

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.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

To be awake is to be alive.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.