Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

I write to discover what I think.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.