People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I go down the street, people see me: ‚Hey, I pity-‚ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

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

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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.

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

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

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.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

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.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.