When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed

I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.