You can fool a scientist, but you can never fool another magician.
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants’ ships, that bringeth food from afar.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.
The surgery was a success, but the patient died.
The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
The past is obdurate.
The past doesn’t want to be changed.
