“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Common sense is not so common.

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.