Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.