The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.