Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'