“You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.”

Your passion becomes a purpose when you use it to serve others.

Good thing, bad thing, who knows.

When you try to live your most authentic life, some of your relationships will be put in jeopardy. Losing them is a risk worth bearing; finding a way to keep them in your life is a challenge worth taking on.

When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.

When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.

Fear makes us fiction writers.

When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.

Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.

Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.

No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.

Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.

Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.

Don’t judge the moment.

Saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.

Treat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.

You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Difficulty shows what men are.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.