If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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

Give up trying to make me give up

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

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

The day of individual happiness has passed

That which costs little is less valued.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.