Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.