Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.