“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.

Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life.

Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.

If you don’t make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humor at the end.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.

Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

I don’t operate on fear, and I don’t let fear control me.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.