As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Money does not change people, people change.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

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.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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

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.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

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.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

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.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

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.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

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

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.