"There are people who say, "I want to change, I really want to change. There is no reason for me to be so poor. I am intelligent. I deserve to live a good life, to earn much more money than I earn." They know this, but that is what their mind is telling them. What do these people do? They go and turn the television on and spend hours and hours watching it. Then how strong is their will? Once we have awareness, we have a choice. If we could have that awareness all the time, we could change our routines, change our reactions, and change our entire life. Once we have the awareness, we recover free will. Becoming aware is about being responsible for your own life. You are not responsible for what is happening in the world. You are responsible for yourself."

"Relationship is an art. To keep the two of you happy, you have to keep your half perfect. You are responsible for your half, and your half has a certain amount of garbage. Your garbage is your garbage. The one who has to deal with that garbage is you, not your partner. And it's the same with your partner's half. Your partner has a certain amount of garbage. Knowing your partner has garbage, you allow her to deal with her own garbage. You are going to love her and accept her with all of her garbage. You are going to respect her garbage. You are not in a relationship to clean your partner's garbage; she is going to clean her own. Even if your partner asks for your help, you have the choice to say no. Saying no doesn't mean you don't love or accept your partner; it means you are not able or you don't want to play that game."

"Love is not about concepts; love is about action. The only way to master love is to practice love. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love."

"In every relationship there are two halves of that relationship. One half is you, and the other half is your son, your daughter, your father, your mother, your friend, your partner. Of those halves, you are only responsible for your half; you are not responsible for the other half."

"You have the power to create. Your power is so strong that whatever you believe comes true. You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself. Your whole reality, everything you believe, is your creation. You have the same power as any other human in the world. The main difference between you and someone else is how you apply your power, what you create with your power."

"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."

"Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."

"Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

"I change my story by changing what I believe about myself. When I clean up the lies I believe about myself, the lies I believe about other people change. Every time I change myself, my whole story changes to adapt to the new main character."

"Be Skeptical, but Learn to Listen."

"Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story."

"The better sort here pretend to the utmost compassion for animals of every kind. To hear them speak, a stranger would be apt to imagine they could hardly hurt the gnat that stung them: they seem so tender and so full of pity, that one would take them for the harmless friends of the whole creation; the protectors of the meanest insect or reptile that was privileged with existence. And yet, would you believe it? I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devouring the flesh of six different animals toasted up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity and they eat the objects of their compassion."

"Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond."

"A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day!"

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse."

"When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff."

"Who peppered the highest was surest to please."

"He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back."

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting."

"As a wit, if not first, in the very first line."

"Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man."

"A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are."

"His conduct still right, with his argument wrong."

"Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."

"Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt."

"Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!"

"We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women."

"Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other! With baskets."

"Oh sir! I must not tell my age. They say women and music should never be dated."

"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs."

"Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved."

"They liked the book the better the more it made them cry."

"We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar."

"The first blow is half the battle."

"A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."

"I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better discerning."

"The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly."

"The very pink of perfection."

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach."

"Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so."

"O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!"

"In all the silent manliness of grief."

"Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe."

"Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn."

"And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy."

"To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art."