The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

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.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.