Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.