One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

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

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

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.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

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.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

What we think, we become.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.