We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.

What's the Matter with the Mill?

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

I go where the lizards tell me.