If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I’m addicted to placebos.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Mind over mattress.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

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

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I want the world to see my body.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

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

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.