Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

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?

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

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.‘

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.