Consciousness does affect matter.

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.

Your inner voice is your signboard, follow it

God will help you do it if you trust and lean on Him for guidance and strength.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.

He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.