The blind cannot see the sun.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

I have got the Arctic lure and will certainly go North again.

You are in control only if you control yourself.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you'. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.

Reform, that we may preserve.