A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show [Star Trek: The Next Generation]. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.