Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read - I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.