Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

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

Man is a universe within himself.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.