I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

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

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.