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.

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!

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

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

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

I already am a product.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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.

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

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

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 have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

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

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

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.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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

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