All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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

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.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.