The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.