Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

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.

Nothing lasts forever. Sadness has an end no matter how long it may last. The more you prepare for the end of your sadness, the more happy you will be

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

When we see only what we want to see in the Bible, it loses all power to transform us.

Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.

The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?