‎A change of work is the best rest.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

With heaven in our hearts, life is romancing uswith glimpses ofthe universe dancing.

Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?