What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

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

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

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.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

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

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

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

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

You should never give up your inner self.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

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

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

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

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.