There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

The battle is over when the foe has fallen.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.