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

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.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

No one but a fool is always right.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Live truth instead of professing it.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

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

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

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The worst crime is faking it.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

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.

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

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

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

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

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.