We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Confine yourself to the present.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Real living is living for others.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

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

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.