“Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.”

The arrogant ego desires respect, whereas the humble worker inspires respect.

If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.

I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.

I can use my awareness of my fear as a tool to help me make decisions that are truly in line with my values and purpose.

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.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.