In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.