Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

Life is short, but the years are long.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.