There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

To create something you must be something.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Time stays, we go.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

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

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.