Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

I would dream of a place, a place to shelter all my madness.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

The greatest things in life are not things.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.