Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

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.

I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin’ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?” He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.