I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.