"“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”"

"Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else."

"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."

"The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."

"People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools."

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."

"I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."