Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.