Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.

Optimism is evidence-based.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Tell your girlfriend or wife you love them everyday. Like I do!

I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

You're a terrible cook, Daniel." "I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts." "I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.