If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.