In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

The happiest moment i felt

Don't be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

Creation begins with vision.

Punishment follows close on crime.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

Union gives strength to the humble.