I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is. |

What you don't want is always going to be with you.
What you want is never going to be with you.
Where you don't want to go, you have to go.
And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die. |

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. |

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. |

Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery. |

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. |

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. |

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. |

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. |

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. |

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. |

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. |

Minds are simply what brains do. |

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets. |

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. |

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. |

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. |

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. |

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. |

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. |

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. |

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. |

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. |