Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

The more I love, the more flowers bloom in my heart.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.