You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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

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

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

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.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

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

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

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

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

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

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

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

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.