Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.