Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.

Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.

It's iron that can sharpen iron

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes over and over again you start slowly hating yourself.

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.