Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

If there is no God, then I am God.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?