I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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.

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

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

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

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

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

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.