Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.