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.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

I’m not a bad person.

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

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.