Sam Harris

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.