The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Solitude is strength

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

There is safety in numbers.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.