I am in my own head most of the time.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

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

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I kinda live where I find myself.

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

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

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

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.