The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
One should always sleep in all of one’s guests’ beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. So I’ll take getting older.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.