Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

I can be a cruel person.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

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

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.