We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
