"It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell."
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"Asking me if I’m in love is like asking a mortician if now is the best time to die."
"And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task."
"My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal."
"Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can."
"A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."
"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
"The Mother Thing makes our world."
"It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher."
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
"The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed."
"I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value."
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."
"I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil."
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