I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

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

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The self is hateful.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

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.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.