I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Men must know their limitations.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

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.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

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

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

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

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

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

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.