Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

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.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Little things affect little minds.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

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