I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Never take anything for granted.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.