Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

The soft bigotry of low expectations

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar

There is worth everywhere and in everything we see.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success