The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt would still be there, festering under the forgetfulness, sending poison through your veins.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.