One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat!

There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.