We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

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.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I’m not a natural joiner.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

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

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.