People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

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.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

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 have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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?‘

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

You are victors, not victims!

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

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

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

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

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

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

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.