We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The only shame is to have none.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

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

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.

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

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

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

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Money does not change people, people change.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

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

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

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

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

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.