Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.