Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

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.

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

How can you ask me to keep a secret... when you can't keep it yourself?

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.