"Love is a cowboy's hardest ride."

"High thoughts must have high language."

"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."

"Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight."

"All actual life is encounter."

"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti."

"We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later."

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?"

"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."

"To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know."

"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity"

"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."

"If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards."

"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."

"I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much."

"In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..."