"If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness."

“In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.”

“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”

“I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.”

“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”

“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”

“And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another, solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected, and whilst the parts of the system, continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.”

Source : "The Collected Works: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society".

“A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow...”

“This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.”