Our necessities never equal our wants.

I am just one human being.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Things do not change; we change.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

You should never give up your inner self.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

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.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

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

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.