The truth doesn’t need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.