A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Such delicacies are relationships.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Compromise is an honorable word.

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.