Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

The world is in A major...the earth revolves in A major, a low A.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today