Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

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.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I really have no interest in myself.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.