People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

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.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I focus on my own job.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

It is always your next move.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.