Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.