If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

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

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Power is competence.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Success has always been a great liar.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

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.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.