When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

No one wants to see curvy women.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

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?‘

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I don’t think I get angry.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

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.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.