In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

H. L. Mencken

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Guido van Rossum

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Michael Lewis

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Howard Gardner

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

John Malkovich

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

John Charles Polanyi

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Neale Donald Walsch

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

Pete Cashmore

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fletcher Knebel