A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Never insult anyone by accident.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
