Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am. Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold. Why did they give me this...

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T - shirt

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us... on the inside, looking out.

Love, and you shall be loved.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be...

You don't know what you are.

unspeakably poor, because she could give nothing and only received, with

Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before John Owen

Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it's never completely gone.

In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing

"Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start...

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I...

The heresy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next generation.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that whereas women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men - great men - must build monuments and seek fame?

DREAMS EDIT THEMSELVES; DREAMS are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever.

Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the...

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither...

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits

A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.