All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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.

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

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.