To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

They were both riding too fast for reason but just fast enough for sanity.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.

When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future !

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.