...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

If you want to know how to swim, you take lessons. If you want to walk on water, lessons won´t help you, just faith.

Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

Things are symbols of themselves.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

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