“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.