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

"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?

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

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.

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

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Mountains are like Challenges... I climb upon them and then face them ..

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

Vote for the USDP because only the USDP can bring peace and tranquility to the country-only vote for the USDP, don't vote for the wrong people.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.