I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

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?

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

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

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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

We feel and know that we are eternal.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

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

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

We are wiser than we know.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you 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.

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

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.