To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Common sense is not so common.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.