I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.