“If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Watch your thoughts, they turn into words. Watch your words, they turn into actions. Watch your actions, they turn into habits. Watch your habits, they turn into character. Watch your character, it turns into your destiny. It all begins with a thought.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.

Think: Is this in my control? If yes, you can do something about it. If no, then you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, in both circumstances, why worry?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.

Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!

I’ve always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that’s reflected in my career.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

There comes a time in every person’s life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.