I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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 weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

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

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

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.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

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

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.