Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

My child reflect the treatment I give.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal.

It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

People have a copyright on their own life.

Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.