Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

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

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.