“If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn’t agree with us, then maybe we won’t blow up the planet.”

“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”

“Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.”

“Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.”

“Doubt ’til thou canst doubt no more…doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

“Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.”

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”