I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

We feel and know that we are eternal.

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

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.