Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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

It’s easy to forget who you are.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

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

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Love is a state of Being. 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.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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

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

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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.

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

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

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.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

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

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.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

What you are comes to you.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

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.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

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

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.