Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

It is your life, enthusiastically accept the challenge.

There's no one to mourn for a life that love stole.

So damn pigheaded. I’ve studied you, not to report you, Caspar, but because I want a relationship with you.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

We - Russian side is ready to be as active as American side is ready.

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.