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

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

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

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

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

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Only the shallow know themselves.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

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.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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.

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.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

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 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.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

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.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.