When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.