The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

If I can be a leader, I will.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

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

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.