Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.

I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for them?

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

Isolation must precede true society.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.