You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

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

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

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

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

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

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.