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

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.

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.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception.

Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

I am Alberto Del Rio, but you already knew that.

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird.