"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures."

"One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God."

"It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order."

"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."

"As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything."

"It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently."

"Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left."

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

"It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."