The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

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

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

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

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

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.