Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

What have I stolen? Probably money as a kid.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

And ar'n't I a woman?

The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.