Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

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.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

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.

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

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

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.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Being humble matters.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

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

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.