“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity. “
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. “
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
“No amount of experiment. can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is. “
“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.”