I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

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

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

As you think, so shall you become.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Faith never makes a confession.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I believe time wounds all heels.