There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

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

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

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

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I think I have always had a little humor.

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 have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I 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.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I already am a product.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

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

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.