All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

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

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

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.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

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

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

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.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

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

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

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

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.