I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when...

To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring...

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question...

The beach is a natural park, without the greenery but the sand is a natural toy.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

It's a powerful experience, shitting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and gives us humility. I...

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

This world's a bubble.

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless speed up. If you become winded slow...

Life is a perilous voyage.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no...

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline; he is limited by circumstances.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.