The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

You have to be someone.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

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

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

I’m not really book-smart.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Action expresses priorities.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I’m not a bad person.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I don’t do meetings.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I can handle pain.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

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