The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

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 worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Solitude is independence.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

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

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

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.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

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.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

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