The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.

If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.

World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.