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

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

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

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

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.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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 never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

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 is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

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

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I’m not the most patient of people.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

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.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.