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

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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