But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Common sense is not so common.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.