A complicated idea is a confused idea.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Creativity is the new literacy

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.