Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

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

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

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.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

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

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

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

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

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.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I give opinions, not advice.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

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

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

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.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

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

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

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

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I kinda live where I find myself.