To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Trust is the only thing that can help relationships last a lifetime!

Approachable people are “straight-up.” It is comforting to know exactly what to expect when you see them. What you see is what you get!

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

I'm from Texas, we fry everything.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.