Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

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.

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.