Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

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.

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.