A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

An idea is salvation by imagination

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Give up trying to make me give up

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

That which costs little is less valued.

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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