Don’t ever play yourself.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

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.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I never say I am a guru.

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

Life well spent is long.

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

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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.