I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I’m selfish.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

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

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

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

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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.

Little things affect little minds.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.