I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

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 am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

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.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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

Mastery passes often for egotism.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

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

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I kinda live where I find myself.

No driver is perfect.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

The self is hateful.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.