As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Learn today so that you may live tomorrow

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.