The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

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.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

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

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

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

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

Integrity has no need of rules.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.