Why not dare yourself to become a shinning positive light where darkness is the only thing known?

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

The essence of your being reincarnates.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.