A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.