Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

At the end of the day it’s not ‘what looks good’ that matters, it’s ‘what feels’ good.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.

My perspective has blossomed. There's always more to learn and more challenges.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Something is being released in the spiritual realm, when it does go to the phone. When the mantle gets passed to you go to the phone and sow a $70 tithe to the $700 pledge.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Only poetry inspires poetry.