Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

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

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

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

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

I’m not perfect.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

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.‘

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I’m an emotional person.

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.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

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

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

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

Hatred is settled anger.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

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.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

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.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

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.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.