Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

Trials and tribulations are nothing but opportunities to test the true potential of your mind.

Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.

AA makes Scientology look credible.

I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...

Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

We can look, but we'd better not touch.