Half the battle is just showing up.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

I would rather be right than rigorous.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.