Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

Get comfortable with the idea that you won’t know what’s good until it’s already happened.

I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.

Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.

There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

Knowing what to take out and what to leave in is what separates the men from the boys.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.