The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

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.

Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.

Be impatient enough to start going after your dreams now but patient enough to watch them manifest.

Know that I'm chosen, one of the few/Staying on top - at least, one up on you

The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.