“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“In two hours the muscles of the heart contract and relax, contract again and relax only eight thousand times. The earth travels less than an eighth of a million miles along its orbit. And th...”

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”