"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"He who makes no secret of himself, enrages."

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."

"Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?"

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."

"The best answer to answer to anger is silence."

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."

"Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow."

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart."

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly."

"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people."