There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).