Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Hope is the pin-pricked light that tears through the fabric of our dark world.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

Travel spoils you for regular life.

I love that feeling of going into a packed theater.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.