If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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

Freedom is from within.

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

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.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.