Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.