In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.