Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Only today is real.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.