Everyday. Every single day I watched how big the tree was. How magnificent that. One day just like that I climbed it. That day everything changed. Neither was the tree same to me nor was I anymore.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

I'll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is being - the synapses are lighting up when I do that.

This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.