I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

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

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

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.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

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

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.