The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

You are incredibly wise. (Kat) Only when it comes to other people. It’s easy to see how to fix their lives. It’s much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.