You can be happy where you are.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

You can’t go backward in life.

I was becoming post-ideological.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I don’t regret anything.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I’ve learned never to say never.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

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

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

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

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

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.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.