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

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

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

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

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

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I don’t ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.