Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them |
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. |
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected. |
He can have few rivals in the courage and integrity and complete self-abnegation with which he has given up his own career (in which, however, he still remains eminent) to devote himself to combating the nuclear peril as well as other, allied evils. |
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things : first, its intensity, and second, its direction |
His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable |
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents |
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it |
I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required to make it workable |
I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions |
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. |
I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. |
I cannot be content with a brief moment of riotous living followed by destitution, and however clever the scientists may be, there are some things that they cannot be expected to achieve |
I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true. |
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. |