“Art is the proper task of life. ”

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

“Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire’s apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.”

“The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.”

“Failing is not the end of the world, but not trying is. I am who I am because I dared to fail and I was willing to learn from my failures.”

“My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.”

“A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can’t you see that? What I want is someone that will love me; she would have me and I her. Otherwise a man may just go hang himself”

“If you make up your mind to have a good day, you’ll find that you can make it so.”

“Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?….It’s less destructive of clothes.”

“I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.”

“Serve the Lord with what you have — your substance, strength, knowledge, and ability”

“As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil—well, that’s something else.”

“Dancing is like poetry written by our bodies: our outstretched arms our words of longing.”