'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Something or someone is always waving goodbye.

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.