There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.