"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

"I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a group or white teenagers standing in a vacant lot, clustered around a 4x4, and I crossed the street to av…"

"Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars."

"Ultimately the galaxy, indeed the sum of the universe in its entirety, was mostly nothing; average it all out and it made a pretty good vacuum. But within the foci of matter there were the systems, th…"

"Proceeding from ourselves, from our own human consciousness, the only consciousness which we feel from within and in which feeling is identical with being, we attribute some sort of consciousness, mor…"