People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.