The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

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.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I got my own back.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.