An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

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