He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I’m totally myself.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

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

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

I’m not perfect.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

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

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Only the shallow know themselves.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.