It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.