To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We think too much and feel too little.

I am happy and I’m single.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

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

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

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!

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

My life is mine to remember.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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.

I think I have always had a little humor.

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

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

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

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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.