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

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

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

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

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

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

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.

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

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

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.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

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

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I’m addicted to placebos.

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

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

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

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I don’t have anything to hide.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.