Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

Self-creation is the highest art.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

if you let tragedy change you, You have already lost.

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.