Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

Even the darkest and stormiest sky will give way to a bright and beautiful sun.

What is impossible today can become possible tomorrow only if we do what is possible today.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

A good poem about failure is a success.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.