We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Life is wasted on the living.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Time stays, we go.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

History should be written as philosophy.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Money does not change people, people change.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

You should never give up your inner self.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.