I love the idea of exploring different worlds, whether it’s through reading or actually immersing myself in a new experience

I’m always open to new ideas, within reason

It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I have always observed that many of people usually or rather seldom refuse or avoid help even if someone is offering them the help in the right manner or in an ideal way.

Respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I’d have killed myself right away.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

You see, my mule don’t like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you’re laughin’ at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you’re going to, I might convince him that you really didn’t mean it.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage, he was fully born.

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you’re not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

The Hindu religion is the only of the World’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere—unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype

The History of the World is nothing but the development of the Idea of Freedom.