You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.