The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

As for our majority… one is enough.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

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.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

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

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Fun is good.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

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.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

No man is hurt but by himself.

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.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I don’t have many sad days.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.