Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.