People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.