I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Single life is so overrated.

Things do not change; we change.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I think I’ve got wiser.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think I have always had a little humor.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

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

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

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

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.