My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.

As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality, is needed in our educational systems.

You weren’t alone, ” he says, making sure I hear every word. “And you weren’t floating.”“How do you know?” I ask.“Because I was carrying you.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.