In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

With every sunrise, I wake up with a deep driving desire to enhance the beauty of my life by becoming happy and joyful. I have found that when I am happy, everything around me dances with joy.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.

Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.