Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

A knowledgeable curious mind is the bridging ground for ideas.

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.