To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

You are not responsible for anybody elses life or happiness, don't ever feel guilty for being happy! ‪

How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power!

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.

Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.