I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

All of our problems start in our minds.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

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.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

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.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I’m not a natural born performer.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

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.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

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

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.