There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

A healthy family is sacred territory.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.