If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die

Don't be a hater and call it love.

Your heart can't be in two places at once, at least not while maintaining a relationship.

Liberal - a power worshipper without power.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.