When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I am happy and I’m single.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

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

Don’t ever play yourself.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

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.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I already am a product.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.