The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

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

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

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.