I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.