"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"It鈥檚 not the fall that kills you; it鈥檚 the sudden stop at the end."

"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes."

"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

"Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection."

"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing."

"Happiness is a way of praying."

"All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."