To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.