You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Peace begins with a smile.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

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.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.