Even a lie is a psychic fact.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices.