Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

You can’t go backward in life.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

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

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

A woman has the age she deserves.

There is so much that people take for granted.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.