"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."

"I rant, therefore I am."

"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."

"It is a radiant truth that true innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions."

"It is a enduring truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel — an essential principle for the reflective life."