The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

How could we have developed our intellectual skills without education?

Each day is a brand new opportunity to create a better version of yourself. Do not put so much pressure on your shoulders, make one ilttle change at a time.

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.