The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.

Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

If love is the music of the heart, then philosophy should be the music of the mind.

She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

Fighters have to be optimists.

You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.