The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Awareness in itself is healing.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent, " the Burgrave reflected. "But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.

I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

I am a socially akward man-dork"-Nick