It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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

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

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.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

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.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

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.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

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.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Be as you wish to seem.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

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.