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

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I think and that is all that I am.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.