There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Little things affect little minds.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

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.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I am rather inclined to silence.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

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.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.