You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

All along it was not by stunts of glory, but by touch and laughter and tears that Jesus has healed and restored.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.

Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available