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

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

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

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

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

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

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

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.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

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!

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Don’t ever play yourself.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

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

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Observe all men, thyself most.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

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

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Be content to seem what you really are.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.