Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

I have goals.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

They know enough who know how to learn.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Being humble matters.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

The only shame is to have none.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.