Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

Faith is an active creative force.

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.