Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I am two with nature.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Never complain. Never explain.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

To create something you must be something.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

The only shame is to have none.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

God is everywhere.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.