You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

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.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Little things affect little minds.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.