There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.