
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
All knowledge is worth having.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.