Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

Life's picking up speed.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.