It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.