How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

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

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

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

This is not a bad life.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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 get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.