Everything is self-evident.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

We kissed for aboutthe thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuildingof shattered trust.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker.