There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.
Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.
There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.
Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.
As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.
Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.
Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.
A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.
We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mu...
Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.
Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.
What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a sing...
Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.
Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.
We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.
I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.
Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.