If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

After all, what is an individual?

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

Meditation on the bus. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.

He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to change the world. Instead, he aroused in you a sense of your own capacities for work, for accomplishment. He made you feel that you and all men had great and generous hearts with which to love God. If you once recognized this fact in yourself you would expect and find it in others.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.