Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Unfenced by law the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

Love is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Organizations endure however in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp in all its details and positive developments any very large portion of human knowledge.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

By the 2030s the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.