I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

The lie is a condition of life.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

I’m perpetually lonely.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

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.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.