"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."
"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."
"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."