One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I’m not a bad person.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I’m not the most patient of people.