Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

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

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

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

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.

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

I’m constantly thinking.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

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.

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

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

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.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

You should never give up your inner self.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.