We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

To think is to say 'no.'

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

No two person, ever read the same book.

Let's have some new cliches.

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

John Travolta, who said, My Saturday night fever was nothing compared to my Sunday morning rash. Never got a dinner!

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.