I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I kinda live where I find myself.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

To be awake is to be alive.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

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

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.