The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.