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.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

We all have done something unethical.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I’m tender on the inside.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.