Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted.

Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.