The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.