I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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

Peace begins with a smile.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

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

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

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

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

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

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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