When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it's being with my kids.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention.

If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.