It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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

I can be a cruel person.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

All of our problems start in our minds.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

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

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Latin music is universal.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I’m an emotional person.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

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?

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Money does not change people, people change.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

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