Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Only you can control your future.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I’m chasing perfection.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Dream and you shall become.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!