Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is the highest form of wisdom. I made a broad gesture. Today the sun is shining and...

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?

No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.'

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.

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care.

According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three...

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.

Nation-states resemble war; city-states resemble commerce; families resemble stability; and individuals resemble entertainment

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

We have had a good time while we were young, but it is in the nature of Time to fly.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…

Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from...

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

But just because he couldn't sense it didn't necessarily mean it wasn't there.

Isn't that what you said Yoda told you before you died?

God is what you do, not what you believe in.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God {or Satan} is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to...

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you...

All revelations are personal, that's why all revelations are suspect.

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.