Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.