A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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

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.

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

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

A great artist paints a picture on the canvas of his mind using the colors of his love and imagination before transferring the image onto a real canvas.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know someone keep you from praying for them.

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.