"Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence."

“I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.”

“Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.”

Source : Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.67

“For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.”

“I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.”

“I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2010.

“The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.”

Source : N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own.”

“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”