It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

A wig is a wig is a wig.

Get out, realize your dream, and go for it

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.