Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

Time is the Mind of Space.

Every battle is won before it is ever fought.

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

Ne yamansınız dökme kalıplarınızla; bir şeyi onlara uydurmadan rahat edemezsiniz.

Während die Starken sich ruhig einmal irren können, ohne etwas zu verlieren, weil selbst die mächtigsten Menschen noch Menschen sind – ja sogar ihre Irrtümer machen sie nur noch menschlicher -,darf sich, wer sich als...

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way

Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

… the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything’s usually neat and tidy in hell…

Some people were destined to have a significant other.Some people were destined for greatness.But few others were destined to be soldiers, to be warriors, to be alone.That is me.It is not a path that i...

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but...

it’s not all about the direction,its about the destination.

I … having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them — that is, I wish...

Knowing you don’t have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. — from the notebooks of Celal Salik

Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,’ he said. ‘While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

Only people are worth dying for.

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

May you rule in wisdom.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set...

In the world you live in, one day you will be gone but you must fulfill your mission before departure.

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows...

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Oh, people get used to so many things,” said Vadesh, “if only they give them selves a chance.

Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment…but moments are fleeting.

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.And sometimes the road chooses us.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It’s older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.

Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

…in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Try jogging when following your heart, it’s healthier

When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the...

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,’ Gordon was saying. ‘And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what...

In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously healed. In reality it doesn’t...

Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us … We...