The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

everything happens for a reason.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Bad things always happen in three.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

What is wrong with you? Many, many things.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!