Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.