Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

"The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought,"

"Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life."

"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,"

"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

"Мечтата е обещанието за онова, което ще бъдете един ден. The dream is the promise for what you will be one day."

"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit."

"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it."

"We do not attract what we want but who we are."

"They themselves are makers of themselves."

"Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought."

"There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks."

"The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous."

"Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt"

"A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life."

"As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking."

"You cannot travel within and stand still without."

"The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves;"

"He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free."