“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.”

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

The beginning is always today.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.