It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don’t know about [their status].

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.