An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
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.