To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

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.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

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.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I can handle pain.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

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

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

It is important to remember yourself.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.