That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.