The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Moonlight is sculpture.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Thought is free.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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

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

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets