“What was dark but the absence of light?”

“Tell me your favourite color, Daphne, and I’ll paint the sky with it.”

“Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.”

“To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.”

“Killing and dying for nonsensical ideas is how many human beings have made sense of their lives.”

“But what if he neglect the care of his soul? I answer: What if he neglect the care of his health or of his estate, which things are nearlier related to the government of the magistrate than the other? Will the magistrate provide by an express law that such a one shall not become poor or sick? Laws provide, as much as is possible, that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others; they do not guard them from the negligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves. No man can be forced to be rich or healthful whether he will or no. Nay, God Himself will not save men against their wills.”

“The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”

“You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.”