Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.

If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Who you are is not where you've been... You're still an innocent.