I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
It's so much more interesting to study a. . . damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,. . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.