“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

An armed society is a polite society.

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.

Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.

It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.