"I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful."

“You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.

“I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.”

“In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory”

Source : Ludwig Boltzmann, J.T. Blackmore (1995). “Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906: Book One: A Documentary History”, p.142, Springer Science & Business Media

“Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.”

“We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.”

“We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.”

Source : "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

“Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is suffering. If you haven't cried, you can't dry another's eyes. Unless you've walked in darkness, you can't help wanderers find the way. Unless you've looked into the eyes of menacing death and felt its hot breath, you can't help another rise from the dead and taste anew the joy of being alive.”

“I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.”