If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
If. . . it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
De omnibus dubitandum
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.
No evil is without its compensation. . . it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.