Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I don’t write letters anymore.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

Time wounds all heels.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.