The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.