The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

When there is nothing left to love for, it's easy to die for something.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

He was a boy, she was a girl, Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk, she did ballet, What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell, But secretly she wanted him as well.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.