“The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)”

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

I who am in the night will move into the day.

Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.

All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Karl Malone’s too high-class for a bum like me.

I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.