Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.

There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

As long as we stick together , we can smash the sadness

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.