Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here