I danced with passion to spite the music.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.