Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

There doesn't need to be a God for me.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!