Confine yourself to the present.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I never make conscious decisions.

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

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

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Life is anything but predictable.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

I’m an emotional person.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.