People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

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.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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

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.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.