There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

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.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

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.

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

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Be as you wish to seem.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Life is precious.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

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

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.