You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

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

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Knowledge is true opinion.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

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 do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

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

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

We feel and know that we are eternal.