I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

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.