I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.

Our time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.