Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Moonlight is sculpture.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

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

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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 am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.