Delusional people do not determine my reality.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.