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

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Libraries raised me.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I hate to be smart.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I’m about being the best.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

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

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Travel teaches toleration.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.