I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

Men must know their limitations.

We are wiser than we know.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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

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

Our necessities never equal our wants.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.