It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

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

Love is a state of being.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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.

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.

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

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

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.

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.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

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

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I already am a product.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.