Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now

The key ingredient to better content is separating the single from the stream.

Do what gives you bliss.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.