Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

You deserve to be unleashed. Bliss is your birthright.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.