The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

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.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

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.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

We are wiser than we know.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

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

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

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

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.