Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

What is true belongs to me!

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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.

Fear is exciting for me.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

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

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

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

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.