In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.

For you the guy should be the one who will look like the God among the guys.

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.

The best of a human being is still a human being.

If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.