He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

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.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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.

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

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

I am not young enough to know everything.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

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

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.