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

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

We think too much and feel too little.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

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

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

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

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Dissents speak to a future age.

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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

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

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

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

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

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.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

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.

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