When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

There is no shame in black beauty.

I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.