I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Men must know their limitations.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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

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

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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.‘

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

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

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.