In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.
Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.
Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.
The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.
Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.
If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.
Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.
Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.
When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.
