doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

Society is better off with me in a gym.

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

Victory occurs when you let God fight your battles.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

I schooled in the Boston area.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.