“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Invited or not, God is present.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

The true leader is always led.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

We don’t get wounded alone and we don’t heal alone.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

There is no substitute for hardwork. Always be humble and hungry.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

There is no substitute for hard work.