People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.