"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that."

“Can it be you can imagine nothing juster and more comforting than that?” Raskolnikov cried, with a feeling of anguish.

“Juster? And how can we tell, perhaps that is just, and do you know it’s what I would certainly have made it,” answered Svidrigailov, with a vague smile.

"I don't know many people."

"I know too many people. I guess we're both lonely."

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways— I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

"A king should always stand by his word."

when king conrad III laid siege to the city of Weinsberg, Germany the inhabitants of the city knew that fighting to the last man was their only way.

that was until the king offered the rebel city a deal: clemency and safe passage out to all the women in the city, plus they were allowed to leave with all they could carry on their shoulders.

naturally, the women left carrying their husbands.

the amused king pardoned the rebel men for what is the essence of king if not his word?

Not all who wander are lost.

But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

during world war 2, the US military would inspect returning bomber planes for damage. the planes that successfully returned were riddled with bullet holes and pieces blown off from enemy fire. the military would then patch up the holes and instruct future planes to be extra reinforced in the areas of the holes.

and then abraham wald, a mathematician, came along.

yes, it would make sense to add extra shielding to the places were the holes were, but, he argued, the holes were not an indication of a problem. if anything, they knew that planes with these holes were capable of returning.

he concluded that it was the areas were there were no holes that were the real problem, as those planes that had this damage never returned.

the military took his advice and instead focused on the areas where there were no holes, improving the safe return of pilots on future missions.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world.

Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots. So I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers.

when the vice president of the united states, spiro agnew, resigned in 1973 the country needed a new vice president. the least controversial choice was a congressman named gerald ford. naturally, richard nixon chose him.

one year later, the president would resign in the Watergate scandal, and the quiet congressman from michigan's 5th congressional district would himself become the 38th president of the united states.

some say this makes gerald ford the president nobody voted for...but that's not quite correct.

he was the president only 118,000 people voted for. in the state of michigan. in the 1972 congressional election: the most important un-important congressional election of all time.

Today, as it did then, the bleak autumn wind whispers and sighs;
Nothing has changed, except in the world of Man. 

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."

"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.

I don't know me
and you don't know you
so we fit so good together cause I knew you like I knew myself

If there's one thing I really despise, it's an indispensable woman.