The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.