People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

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.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Peace begins with a smile.

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

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Being humble matters.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Little things affect little minds.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.