If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

Obstacles only surface in your life to reveal to you your untapped mental capabilities.

The Heart of Fairyland is a story, " she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.