Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

The only shame is to have none.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Be content to seem what you really are.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.