Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

God always wants us to be growing.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

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

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.