We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.