“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”

“I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.”

“Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. ”

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”

“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”

“Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.”

“I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.”

“Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.”

“I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.”