My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Bragging just sounds good, man.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I’m nobody, who are you?

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

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

The only shame is to have none.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

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

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

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.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

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

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

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.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.