"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."

“The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.”

“It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.”

“Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.”

“I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”

“Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.”

Source : Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

“Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.”

“Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly”

Source : "Roman Vishniac (ICP library of photographers)" by Roman Vishniac, p. 42, 1974.

“I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.”