We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to strive. That is enough; there is no need to assert 'belief' in that which we do not, as yet, know.

Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.