Ideas are the roots of creation.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".