Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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

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

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Be as you wish to seem.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

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

Observe all men, thyself most.

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

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

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

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I’m addicted to placebos.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I really have no interest in myself.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

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

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

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.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Be content to seem what you really are.

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.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

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.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.