topher's favorite quotes, in random order
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and question - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has.
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Each one of an agreeable couple may be willing to die for the other, yet be unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Offered a sexless heaven I’d say, "No thank you."—women are such sweet hell.
~ Ovid (Translated from Latin)
Make voyages! Attempt them. There's nothing else.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
I want to be all used up when I die.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Affliction is the good man's shining time.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
...religion...teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
'Luck' is a name we give to certain improbable things.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
It's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live.
How much have cost us the evils that never happened!
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
But I was thinking of a way to multiply by ten, and always, in the answer, get the question back again.
To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument yet yield to a glance.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…
...the dread of death - the great poison to the happiness.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like seeing your history in the faces of your friends.
...happiness responds to circumstances, but, basically, it's internal.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
The idea is to die young, as late as possible.
Don't fear failure. Fear succeeding at something that doesn't matter.
If you want to learn to build a house, build a house. Don't ask anybody. Just build a house.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of the mind is not acquainted.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
If it's worth a daydream, it's worth a road trip.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Cowardice is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it—you don't want it bad enough.
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Adventure is just bad planning.
Play so that you may be serious.
People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
To be afraid is a priceless education.
You cannot have what you want if you are content to remain what you are.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Fear is a habit.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities aggrivates his fear; troubles half seen do torture.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it ends.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
There is no distance on earth as far away as yesterday.
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do so.
Who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, will scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Commit the oldest kind of sins, the newest kind of ways.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
One person out of one will die.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
To be normal, one must be peculiar in one way or another.
I don't pretend to understand the universe—it's much bigger than I am.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet.
We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
When I grow up, I want to be a little boy.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Don't be afriad to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
When you argue with reality, you lose - but only 100% of the time.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Do you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Don't do the thing that makes you nervous.
Love is like Pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by.
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Women often wish to give unwillingly what they really like to give.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather, to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy shit, what a ride!"
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
There is in every village a torch--the teacher: and an extinguisher--the clergyman.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
You're never too old to become younger.
Compassion is deeper than religion.
It is for the superfluous we sweat.
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
...in our time, a beard is the one thing a woman can not do better than a man...
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The less routine, the more life.
Let your children go if you wish to keep them.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
More important than understanding life, is enjoying it.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
We're only young once, but with humor, we can be immature forever.
I like life. It's something to do.
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Think long and hard before compromising happiness for sensibility.
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Run not to escape your fears, but rather, to chase your dreams.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it's called insanity. When many people suffer a delusion, it's called religion.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
We can not live better than in seeking to become better.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Assume nothing, pursue everything.
If all your friends jumped off of a bridge, would you? If you had any sense at all, of course you would.
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
Go West, young man.
Hedging your bets in life is wasting energy. Do what you're drawn to in the most vigorous way you know.
There are moments when everything goes well. Don't be frightened, it won't last.
There's only one reason to shave on Sunday, and it isn't church.
The best way out is always through.
If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
It's too comforting, like the bible. It makes you brain dead.
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
Every day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
There is no up nor down to the universe and no hierarchy of value outside the human mind.
If you only do what you know you can do—you never do very much.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
You are richer today if you have laughed, given, or forgiven.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
When we love there is no reason why.
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you, kid. Let's go!
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
When you're through changing, you're through.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Physics is the universe's operating system.
Never mistake motion for action.
The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
Don't go around saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
A man chases a woman until she catches him.
When death comes, the farce is over, so let us take our pleasure while we can.
Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will be able to see further.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, we are a sorry lot indeed.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no one common denominator. But, among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
You have to live with the crashes, and hope you don't get into one.
I'm learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Happiness and love are just a choice away.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.
It was the greatest of imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
Adventure is just an excuse to do something stupid. But, it's an excuse that I can accept.
What happens when the future has come and gone?
Very early in my life it was too late.
If the price of living is dying, I'll give it a try.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow of the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
For after all, if the love of mere glory is selfish, it is not quite so low as the love of mere comfort.
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Security is the denial of life.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.
Anecdotes aren't data.
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
Paradoxically, we cannot navigate clearly within a relationship unless we can live without it.
No profit grows where is no pleasure taken.
Life is too important to take seriously.
If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Analysis kills spontaneity.
What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to choose the one I've never tried before.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
If you're sitting around waiting to be sure, you're just sitting around.
Be a life short or long, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything—even if you have no clue what you're doing.
When people are least sure they are most dogmatic.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
I don't know if god exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn't.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables.
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you will make one.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent.
Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
When I look down, I just miss all the good stuff. When I look up, I just trip over things.
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Happiness as an end does not justify any means, but it justifies a great many of them.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I thought I had a hernia once; it turned out my underwear were just too tight.
A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the nonexistent.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
If you survived your own childhood, you have enough stories to last several lifetimes.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You musn't lose it.
Praise happenstance.
Don't panic.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
We are the stuff of the universe, momentarily sentient, but aside from that little piece of weirdness, we are already home.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
That the truth hurts does not make it false. Reality does not have the capacity to accommodate your feelings.