No experience is a coincidence, everything happens for a reason. Because you are yet to find it, doesn't mean it has no meaning.
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.
Just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
And it's just the spiral when it starts going the other way. It's like, sometimes you just have to get out the way and wait until the downward spiral stops.
What the artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of space in the big picture.
We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they’re under-appreciated and underpaid. So that’s my opinion of teachers.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.