There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Don’t ever play yourself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

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.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

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 aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.