What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

To this day, one of my proudest achievements is captaining my country.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.