Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.