If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

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.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.