Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.' 'In the way of what?' 'In the way of what's true.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Well, it's simple to love someone, " she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

What's the burn scale?

We have lunch at ten-forty-five, ” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.