Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

History teachers help children climb mountains.

If you believe, don't worry. If you don't believe you will get all dressed up with nowhere to go.

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

I think I was unprepared for war.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.