For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

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

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

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

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

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

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

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

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.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.