I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.