"The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it."

“Anywhere you hang yourself is home.”

“Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.”

“Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.”

Source : "Writer Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

“I fear we may live to see another revolution.”

Source : John Marshall (2005). “The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall”, p.90, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

“The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

“Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”

“We are all selfish, scared and stupid.”

Source : "Selfish, Scared and Stupid". Book by Kieran Flanagan, Dan Gregory, 2014.

“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”