Faith is intellectual laziness.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.