We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.