In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day, ' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

It is just as important that we enter into a dialogue with China.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.