Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

Sometimes words aren't needed.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.