If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I’ve been very fortunate.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

What we think, we become.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Reality is a sliding door.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I know love is the answer.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

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.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

We were poor, but we smiled.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.