Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.

If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.