The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The mainstream is always under attack.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Hatred is settled anger.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Sleep is the best meditation.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I think America has always been polarized.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.