You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

Christians, pray for an outpouring of God’s Spirit upon a willful, evil, unrepentant world.

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.