Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

The simple things in life last a lot longer in your heart

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.