It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Men must know their limitations.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

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

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

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.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

You can’t trust very many people.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The only shame is to have none.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

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

Hell is other people.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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.

Man becomes his most creative during war.