People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

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

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

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

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.