You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there