“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.”
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.”
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
“One man's magic is another man's engineering.”
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“An armed society is a polite society.”
“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
“Specialization is for insects.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”
“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”