Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

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.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Men must know their limitations.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.