Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

I don’t give up on people, even when they give up on me.

Why do you paint, Nona?"...'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

Secrets are like honey in a paper bag. Eventually, they leak out.

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

Acting should be an end in itself.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.