It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

It's going to hurt until it doesn't anymore.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?