O belo é uma manifestação de leis secretas da natureza, que, se não se revelassem a nós por meio do belo, permaneceriam eternamente ocultas.

A natureza é o único livro que oferece um conteúdo valioso em todas as suas folhas.

O mundo tornou-se perigoso, porque os homens aprenderam a dominar a natureza antes de se dominarem a si mesmos.

Cada dia a natureza produz o suficiente para nossa carência. Se cada um tomasse o que lhe fosse necessário, não havia pobreza no mundo e ninguém morreria de fome.

A natureza nunca nos engana; somos sempre nós que nos enganamos.

Em todas as coisas da natureza existe algo de maravilhoso.

Só se pode vencer a natureza obedecendo-lhe.

A arte é um resumo da natureza feito pela imaginação.

Não devemos ter medo de inventar seja o que for. Tudo o que existe em nós existe também na natureza, pois fazemos parte dela.

Nunca a natureza é tão aviltada como quando a ignorância supersticiosa tem a arma do poder.

Adopte o ritmo da natureza. O segredo dela é a paciência.

A sabedoria da natureza é tal que não produz nada de supérfluo ou inútil.

O sonho e a esperança são dois calmantes que a natureza concede ao ser humano.

A natureza esconde seu segredo porque é sublime, não por astúcia.

Tudo o que nasce deve morrer, passando pela natureza em direção à eternidade.

A alegria de ver e entender é o mais perfeito dom da natureza.

A verdade literária nunca poderá ser a verdade da natureza.

Embora seja curta a vida que nos é dada pela natureza, é eterna a memória de uma vida bem empregada.

A natureza concedeu aos grandes homens a faculdade de fazer e aos outros a de julgar.

Se uma planta não consegue viver de acordo com sua natureza, ela morre, assim também um homem.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

A glint of intention initiates the process of creation.

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

You cant substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Aggressive, scowling and critical attitude in our relations, with our friends or subordinates, is another form of bullying.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

What television gets to do, and there's a reason why 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' works as well as it does, is that it deals with the relationships. It deals with the very small, interpersonal ways that people both love and hate each other.

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.