"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?"

"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."