When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Confine yourself to the present.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

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.‘

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Short cuts make long delays.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

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

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

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

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

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.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Better never than late.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

No one but a fool is always right.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.