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

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

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.