We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I always wanted a family.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Humble people ask for help.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.