Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Awareness in itself is healing.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.