I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

Its the combination big idea with a good entrepreneur theres nothing more powerful.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the guilty.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

We will make our products work out of the box.

Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire; not in multiplying of wealth, but in subtracting people's desires. Generally those who boast most of contentment have least of it. Their very boasting shows they want something and basely beg it, namely commendation.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasnt crying last night.