When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

How can a president not be an actor?

I never make conscious decisions.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

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

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.