The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.