I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.