Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

I love you endlessly.

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

Every new friend is a new journey, through a brand new road, toward a brand new mysterious heart.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.