When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

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

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

No man is hurt but by himself.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

In time of war the laws are silent.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

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

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

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.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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.

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.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.