Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

The Unction is given to Function, not to Misfunction

When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness.

I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.