Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.