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

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.

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

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

One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged

The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.

Don't date a woman who doesn't take care of her place (she won't take care of you).