The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Seeing is not always believing.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

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.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.