One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

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.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Fear is exciting for me.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

My life is my argument.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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.