Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

There is no greater failure than success through wrong means

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

In my end is my beginning

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.