"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."

"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed."

"Specialization is for insects."

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

"I am not merry; but I do beguileThe thing I am, by seeming otherwise."

"My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish."

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!"

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."