Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

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.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

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

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

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.