That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

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.

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

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.

Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.

World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.