Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

My special possessions are my sacred family.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.