"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it"