Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else.

He was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how she came to be. It was a fascinating phenomenon.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.