“You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.”

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Life is a useless passion.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Your mindset is responsible for all that you experience throughout the day.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

Half my mind is sex and songs.

When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.

Real beauty is when you’re centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.

Funny thing about the mind, It can trap and free you at the same time.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.