Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!

Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."