I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

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.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

The only shame is to have none.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

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

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

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 no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

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

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I can be a cruel person.

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.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

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.

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.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

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

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

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Vanity is but the surface.

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

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.