I think work is a privilege. . . . It keeps you alive, spiritually.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.
The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.