philosophical

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question...

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Everything you know gained from experience

Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?

Apprentices Needed, Not DisciplesFor many, the knowledge of a Jesus, a Lao-tzu, a Buddha, or a Gandhi is complete and unassailable. But we do them and their vision a disservice when we follow them rather than using what they have taught to build upon as we strive toward our goal of a better society.

I would like to believe and give in to my naiveté, I would like to embrace the fact that I am back in the place where the long fingers of civilization cannot reach me and rip my heart out. At this moment, I would like to embrace myself. I would like to be unconcerned with the rest of the world and take pleasure in knowing that I have found my home. All of my life, all of my adult life, which began with the first notion of understanding, I have been searching for this sensation. You, cruel world, have tried to bring me down, tried to crush me with your code of conduct, your ethics, and your preconceived limits on liberty. You have raped me and robbed me of happiness; you have stolen my dreams and my dignity, leaving me to rot with the rest of you. Today, I know I have escaped your poisoned web; I know your rules do not apply to me, for after all you have done to crush me, I am still standing proudly above the set of your sick play. I am in love__ feeling you no longer thought I was capable of. I am in love__iving, breathing, dreaming again__riumphant over your sick schemes.

Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.

Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?