The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam or place of madmen and oneself a physician is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination and the way to happiness.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

When you are not treated seriously you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

As we know forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits it is part of my own being.

Everything one does in life even love occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.