“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s ok to be different.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that’s too bad.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

Don’t bother doing something unless you’re radically different from the competition.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds – a totally different dimension from the daily life.