There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

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?

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

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.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

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.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I kinda live where I find myself.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

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 your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.