A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat.

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.