The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Find your happiness in yourself.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.