No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

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

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Love is a state of being.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

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

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.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

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.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.