The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

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.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

For me, education was power.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

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

All of our problems start in our minds.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.