Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.