"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."

"People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up."

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."

"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."

"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently."

"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it."

"In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable."

"Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars."

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide."

"To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."

"The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas."

"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."