Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

We do choose how we shall live

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.