Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

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

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

My whole life is a theater piece.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.