Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Some people radiate happiness and make every one happy around them.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.