A useless life is an early death.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.