We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Peace begins with a smile.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

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

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

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.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

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.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

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.

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.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

What I love best in life is new starts.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The people in my songs are all me.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

The best is the enemy of the good.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.