"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."

"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."

"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it."

"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed."

"I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason."

"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."