The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

In doing you're not, rather in your non-doing you really are!

In the midst of life we are in death, '" said Miss Ophelia.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

I have this dream that secretly all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we all realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending to be something we're not.

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets The moon sets But they are not gone.