All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

You have a right not to be negative.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to ask about Barack Obama legitimity because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.