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

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

We are wiser than we know.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

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

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

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

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

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

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

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

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

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.

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

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

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

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

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

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Don’t ever play yourself.

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.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!