It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.

Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

Music fathoms the sky.

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.

Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.

Look up, get up and don't ever give up.

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.