Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.