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

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.

To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.

You are who you are when no one is watching.

Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.

All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.

We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. You’re my teacher.

Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.

The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.

If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else

We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love

Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.

What’s on your news feed is feeding your mind.

Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won’t get you in one shot. He’ll come at you and he’ll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

I’ve always been a performer. That’s just what I know.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps

You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.