One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

You can’t conquer a free man

Put variety in white.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

The only weapon I've got is comedy

Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.

Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.

I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?