Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

He thinks things through too much.

I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Strange world isn't it?

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Hope gives happiness.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.