Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I love you more than piranhas love chicken wings.

My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That's my belief.

Vanity prevents improvement

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

Science should be on tap, not on top.