A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

…that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove...

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

My fingers combed through my dark hair, short and straight, landing in choppy, uneven ends nearly level with my chin. The color reminded me of every evil character in any fairytale. It seemed all were...

Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at...

Alex stepped out from behind the rock.Relieved to see him in one piece, I threw myself forward and hugged him. He returned the embrace with a low chuckle, “Jeez, Dez, if I knew this was...

… I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe… Polly Baker

IV The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V If the many become the same as the few, when possess’d,...

The main wall that’s standing between you and success is having the courage to face your fear of failure. The foundation of success or failure can only be built with one’s thoughts and beliefs. Positive...

I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come...

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

I’m not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn’t like what she was at the beginning, I wish she...

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I’m too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face...

They don’t know who I am; what they do know, is that I’m not nothing, and that I’m not noone.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no...

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

As important as faith is when it comes to success, when it is not accompanied with some consistent actions, its purpose becomes nothing but a wishful thinking.

Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.

The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it’s going to be better over the next jump of land.

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may...

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: ‘Only if I did not know that I was doing...

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

Please tell me the truth about yourself.

All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished...

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn’t.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. … if they are mistaken, they will never discover it; they have condemned themselves to perpetual error. Human...

If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.

I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn’t be able to handle it, that I was too sheltered or too innocent or something. If she had...

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities....

There is a big difference between positive thinking and wishful thinking. Sitting around and wishing is definitely not going to create a miracle in your life.

How wonderful if something that only be existed in wishful thinking, comes and expresses themselves without being asked forcefully; but alas, i’m too immersed in the excitement until i don’t realize that it’s only temporarily,...

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.