Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

We are wiser than we know.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Man, all lives matter.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

No sane man will dance.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.