Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

If a wish turns to hope, it’s worth chasing. (Lucas Warbuck: Darkotika - Book 2)

If walls could talk - scratch that, if walls could make sarcastic comments... well, things would be interesting.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.