SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Learn to. . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
Make me an instrument of thy peace.