It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Observe all men, thyself most.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

You should never give up your inner self.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

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.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

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

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.