Give me an incubator or give me death!

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.