Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.