There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

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

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

I am just one human being.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

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

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

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.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

All of our problems start in our minds.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘