I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

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

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Confine yourself to the present.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

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

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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