Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

Sometimes we only see how people are different from us, but if you look hard enough, you can see how much we're all alike.