The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

, Be generous, giving grows your spirit just as reading grows your intellect.

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.

It's not conversion 'therapy

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.

I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger.