It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

I'm a born-again atheist.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Where is the Life we have lost in living? - Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? - Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only one that says "escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience".

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Do I contradict myself? - Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.