In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.
The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to t...
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.
Self-taught, are you? Julian Castle asked Newt.Isn't everybody? Newt inquired.Very good answer.
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stone...
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.
Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express eni...
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them...
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Be patient, Ophelia.
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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