Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.