The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

I took some sense and made a nickel of it.

While not all men are sexist, all women face the impact of sexism in some way, so the point is there's a massive problem to be solved, and you can be a big part of the solution.

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer.