I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I think I have always had a little humor.

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

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

No one but a fool is always right.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

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.

My life is a struggle.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

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.

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

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.