Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.

Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

I've seen you burn trained vampires to a crisp and swat supernatural beings away with your wings as if they were insects bothering you, and my driving is terrifying?""Well it's not good.

...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.