It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.