Fiction is but a moment of bliss that takes the pain away...Like a cookie for the soul...

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.