Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.