Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

Russia is the biggest threat to the international order, not the Islamic State, not Iran, although I have problems with Iran, and not China. It's Russia.