Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Just remain in the center

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

I mean, I'm lucky because I've slimmed down, but the last thing I was thinking about was losing weight.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.