What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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.

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.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I believe time wounds all heels.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

We are wiser than we know.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

My life is my message.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.