Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.