"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."

"He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."

"It is a timeless truth that to live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a timeless truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep."

"When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did."

"We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children."