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.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I kinda live where I find myself.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I love being busy.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

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

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I think I’ve got wiser.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

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.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.