“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

To live is to express oneself freely.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Don’t ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.