The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

Love doesn't have a calendar

Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.