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

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Fear is exciting for me.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

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

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

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.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I think I’ve got wiser.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.