I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.

The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.