People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I don’t think I get angry.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

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

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

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.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.