This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

There is no unique picture of reality.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

We live in a bewildering world.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Freedom is relative.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

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.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

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

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.