Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I am two with nature.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

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

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Men must know their limitations.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

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

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Each day provides its own gifts.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

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.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

What we think, we become.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

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

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.