Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

The self is hateful.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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