You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Think and grow rich.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Never confuse motion with action.

All of our problems start in our minds.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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.

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

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

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

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

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

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?‘

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

You should never give up your inner self.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Begin with the end in mind.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

As you think, so shall you become.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.