There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.