Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

From birds she learned how to sing

Science rules!

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

There is no method except yourself.

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.