As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

No matter how big or small the service is, Always express your Thanks to the person who served you.

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.

To be somebody you must last.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

This treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me... It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit, And at the day's end you still got nothing accomplished.