If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.