I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Love is a state of Being. 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.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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

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

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I think and that is all that I am.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

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

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

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.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

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

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.