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

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.

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

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face' -Nick

While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

There's no short-cut to becoming strong. Even if you try to look strong on the outside, that thin layer will soon fall off.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?