Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I’m not the most patient of people.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

We think too much and feel too little.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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 wiser than we know.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

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.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.