In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.

When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

The world treats beautiful people like they're good at something, which makes it so that they almost never get good at something.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice!

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.