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.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Be content to seem what you really are.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

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

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

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.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

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.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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