I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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

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

Dare to risk public criticism.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.