I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I can express myself.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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.

I’m not perfect.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I don’t regret anything.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

I love being busy.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.