You live it forward, but understand it backward.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to raise your taxes up to the sky. She wants to raise.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when............,,,..#quantum

The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.