You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

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

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I’m not perfect.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.