The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

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

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

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

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

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

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

We think too much and feel too little.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.