Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

A word after a word after a word is power.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

A home without books is a body without soul.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.