Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. |
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. |
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. |
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. |
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. |
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. |
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. |
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. |
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. |
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. |
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. |
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. |
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. |
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. |
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. |
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. |
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. |
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. |
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. |