When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I am just one human being.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

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

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

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

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

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.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Before all else, be armed.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.