I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

The self is hateful.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Vanity is but the surface.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

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.

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

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

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.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

We are wiser than we know.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I don’t exercise.

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.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

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

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I think and that is all that I am.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

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

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

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.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.