When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Reasons are for peasants.

All true stories end in death.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.

Back then they used different chemicals in the tanning process. They prevent ocean bacteria from eating away at whatever is inside. A leather bag from the early 1900's is like a time capsule.

Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.

Science is magic that works.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.