Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A person preaches well that lives well.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.