I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.