Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

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

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

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

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

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

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

I’m an emotional person.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

The self is hateful.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

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

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.

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

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

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.