You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.

Shall I add a man to my collection?

I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and you know that for some things there is no comfort.

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.