A great man is made so for others.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Don't leave home without your left hemisphere

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.