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

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

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

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

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.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

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.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

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.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

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

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.