It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.